We have had Gustavo Crespi as the speaker for our July session. Gustavo is a Lead Specialist in the Competitiveness and Innovation Division in the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). He also served as Senior Program Officer at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada.  His interests include Industrial Development, Technological Change, Industrial Structure and Development of the Firm and Management and Technology Policy Evaluation, especially in developing countries. He has written and published numerous articles on those topics in journals such as World Development, Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Technology Transfer, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Technovation, Small Business Economics, among others. Gustavo shared some insights about institutional…

We have the great pleasure to have Elkin Echeverri García as this session's speaker. Elkin is a serial entrepreneur and businessman. He also was the first Director of the Medellín Science, Technology and Innovation Plan at Ruta n. (2013-2014) and the director of the Planning and Prospective Area at Ruta n (2015-2020). You can find more information about Elkin's rich trajectory here: http://www.elkinecheverri.website/ Additional material: Estado del Ecosistema de Innovación de Medellín Elkin Echeverri García  

We have had the great pleasure to have Dominique Chauveau, Chief of the Strategic Development Unit of FIA (within the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture). Dominique talked about the strategic change process in the Fundación para la Innovación Agraria in Chile.  Dominique has a rich trajectory working with both public and private organisations in areas related to innovation management and entrepreneurship.